In this Webinar, attendees will learn how 6WIND Turbo IPsec performance tests on servers based on Intel® Xeon® Platinum processors demonstrate a 50% increase in processing power for common applications such as multi-site VPNs and backhaul security gateways. This performance benefit also scales in conjunction with the addition of cores. These applications are designed for today’s multi-core processor environments, driving a significant price/performance value proposition over legacy hardware.

While NFV brings numerous benefits to Communication Service Providers (CSPs), it also introduces new tasks that CSPs previously did not have to worry about. Some of these tasks are:

* VNF Performance Validation
* VNF Onboarding
* VNF Deployment

In this webinar, you will learn why these new tasks are important and how to use open source projects to accomplish them. We will use OPNFV Yardstick NSB, OPNFV SampleVNF, OPNFV OpenStack scenario and ONAP to walk through each of the above steps. You will gain understanding of what each of these tools is and how they help accomplish the above tasks.

Enterprises are deploying SD-WAN, at an increasingly faster pace, as an important first step towards building optimized environments that are ready for multi-cloud world. As a platform, SD-WAN is a solid first step in deploying edge security applications and services with additional security functions like next-generation firewall (NGFW), intrusion prevention, SSL inspection, web filtering, DNS security, and malware analysis needed as well. In this webinar, we will discuss how VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud lays the foundation for SD-WAN and how Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and GlobalProtect security products complement and strengthen overall security to help organizations prevent successful cyberattacks. We will also discuss how Intel architecture, network and security specific hardware and software technologies help these workloads operate in a consistent, saleable and high performance way.

Financial customers moves their applications from enterprise deployments to data center lowering the OPEX. With this movement there is no move to change requirements that are low and deterministic latency of data transport and extreme compute power. With use of FPGA and DPDK technology there is possible to lower the transport latency and use compute of power of Intel® Xeon® processors efficiently comparing to traditional Linux kernel approach.
The webinar presents problems related with transport using Linux kernel and demonstrates how the FPGA and DPDK can be used to improve data transport for financial applications.

The telecoms industry is capital intensive, so every dollar and every cent spent on new infrastructure needs to be accounted for. The biggest expense for mobile operators has always been the RAN, accounting for around 60 % of CAPEX (and 65 % of OPEX). Older (2G, 3G) technologies are becoming more expensive to maintain alongside with 4G and soon 5G. The Open Compute model of the data center has the potential to help operators to move away from proprietary hardware to a virtualized network architecture. Some of TIP’s (Telecom Infrastructure Project) initiatives by Facebook) highest-profile activities are aimed specifically at the RAN, where the proprietary nature of several interfaces has stopped operators from using more than one vendor. The software-based approach for older Gs is unheard of where by virtue of the original design, it’s impossible to reconfigure legacy 2G and 3G networks to support newer communications standards such as 4G, and eventually 5G. In this webinar learn how Parallel Wireless Open RAN technology, designed on x86 across baseband processing platform, radio hardware, and radio and core software, simplifies MNOs business models to support ALL current, present, and future Gs for a better service to the end users at much lower cost. We will present recent case studies from TIP Summit from operators like Telefonica, MTN and Vodafone. www.parallelwireless.com

Most mobile operators are moving ahead with their 5G plans, some tentatively and others aggressively. Those who don’t act, face the very real prospect of being left behind in the greatest technology transformation in decades.

To Modernize your 4G/LTE networks for 5G, we will outline four strategic investments that mobile operators should consider today while delving into the myths and realities around them. These four areas are:
•Upgrading network management
•Consolidating network functions
•Boosting security at key protection points
•Virtualizing network functions

In the security portion of this webinar, we also spotlight key concerns where modern Gi/SGi firewalls and advanced machine learning powered DDoS protection are essential. By carefully investing in upgrades to support specific 5G use cases, network operators can monetize their near-term investments and at the same time modernize the existing infrastructure in preparation for the eventual migration to a full 5G architecture.

Networking has become painfully complicated. There has been little innovation in routing for decades. Overly complex networks are barely meeting today’s business requirements, with armies of sleep-deprived network engineers, duct-tape, and some luck. In this talk, we will discuss how session orientation in the routing layer allows a fundamentally different, far simpler, way to network. Session Smart Routers enable tunnel free SD-WAN on Intel uCPEs which improve scale and performance by leaps when compared to traditional routers. We will discuss how enterprises and service providers are using this to unlock unprecedented value.

Colt is rolling out its uCPE platform for delivery of virtualized services. The uCPE approach enables Colt to achieve faster product development, cost savings and operational efficiency, all while leveraging best-in-class technology from multiple suppliers. As well as the ability to rapidly bring new products and services to the market, Colt’s uCPE solution will deliver a new level of efficiency. Capital and operating expenses are dramatically reduced with the use of shared commercial off-the-shelf infrastructure and standardization enables processes and skill sets to be optimized and streamlined.

In this webinar we will review a novel network fabric architecture that leverages open source software, distributed SDN intelligence and open networking principals and has been designed for multi-site data center deployments as well as emerging distributed cloud and edge compute environments. We will discuss the technical attributes of the architecture and the rationale behind its design and then we will review deployment examples. The first will be how this architecture has been deployed at regional cloud service provider Econocom Italia for their new Naboo Cloud offering. Econocom is the Digital Transformation Designer that designs, integrates and supports innovation, accelerating the digital transformation of companies. We will review the status of the implementation, learnings to date and next steps in the deployment. Second we will review a common scenario whereby Enterprise customers like Steelcase deployed a programmable network fabric to interconnect their multiple data centers and use the fabric’s deep segmentation functionality for IoT deployments.

We are pleased to offer a new Webinar, “Securing your containers with Kata,” focusing on financial and other highly-sensitive use cases. Kata Containers offer hardware-rooted isolation between containers, providing an additional layer of security for sensitive applications. The webinar will include a discussion of the motivations behind the Kata Containers project, how it fits into the broader container ecosystem with Kubernetes and Docker interoperability, and the advantages of its small footprint and stronger security. For familiar users, we’ll also review how the project has evolved from version 1.0 to the recent 1.5 release. We will also provide demonstrations of how to get started with Kata Containers and how Kata Containers can mitigate against an existing security exploit. Join us on February 21, 2019, for an informative hour on Kata Containers.

Workloads are shifting across platforms that span from entry-level to extreme performance.
Finding the right balance of compute, acceleration, networking and storage to cost effectively run an application at any location in the network can be challenging.
More agile solutions are required that meet the challenges of next generation networks with greater elasticity across a scalable range of white box servers.

This webinar will provide you with deeper insights into Intel® Select Solutions for NFVI and uCPE and how they help:

Cybersecurity is a conversation without compromise. Our data is an extension of ourselves. Our client’s data is data in our care.
We exist in a paradigm where our business requires a robust security architecture woven into the fabric of our Networks, Storage, Big Data, Enterprise and Cloud configurations.
As the amount of information we manage multiplies exponentially, it is becoming increasingly challenging to ensure our structures are robust enough, processes nimble enough, and data protected enough to stave off cyber-security threats.
Hactivists, Activists and Nation States are well organized and funded around the globe. Their illegal hacking activity is a constant threat to our infrastructure that requires architectures and support to maximize our protection.
Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) accelerates Crypto Ciphers, Hash, Public Key Cryptography, Key Protection and Compression/Decompression so that your architecture has the protection, performance and latency to secure your information, and provide an agile response to threats.

Kubernetes is typically used to run workloads of production web applications at massive scale. While NFV control plane functions are similar to the usual k8s workloads, data plane functions differ greatly and require special attention in order that the capabilities of k8s can be extended to support NFV use cases.
This work spans k8s resource management and networking to support NUMA, CPU pinning & isolation, hugepage memory, node feature discovery, multiple networks and high performance network i/o with SR-IOV, Device Plugins and user space networking(DPDK, OVS-DPDK & VPP). This talk will discuss these efforts and their current status and provide an opportunity for those interested to learn more about joining the effort to further these solutions upstream.

What is the Visual Cloud and how are cloud based workloads evolving. In this course we will explore Intel’s approach to supporting the Visual Cloud via an open source collection of frameworks and libraries that support four core building blocks that build the five key visual cloud workloads.

QCT is going to hold an NGCO launch event together with Intel and 10 VNF partners. In the NGCO event, QCT together with solution partners are going to elaborate the achievements which are building for next-generation central office and how to proceed next step for fixed & mobile convergence for the future 5G. This webinar is going to present a preview of NGCO launch event and how Intel® Select Solutions add value.

Diverse environments between CommSP IT, Core and Edge networks require flexible orchestration to implement multiple design principles from Telco over IT to cloud native. Solving orchestration and platform requirements for edge computing is critical from very small sites to much bigger ones. We will explore much better business and service agility for more performance and cost-optimized Intel(R) Architecture platforms.

Intel and VMware will explore the impact of NFV Infrastructure on VNF Data Plane performance. We will explain the correct hardware design and then discuss the optimal use of VMware vCloud NFV to achieve high throughput and low latencies. This will be excellent opportunity to learn about Data Plane HW configurations with Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and Intel® Ethernet Adapters 710 Series, as well as VMware’s latest vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition 3.0 and NSX.

In today’s world of applications, dynamic workloads, and software-defined technologies, performance matters more than ever. Metrics like latency, availability, throughput, and processing power are all critical to designing a hyper-converged, software-based data center. Intel and VMware have been actively collaborating on technologies optimized for network workloads, and helping customers build solutions for enterprises of all sizes. In this session, we will explore how VMware, Intel, and customers are building multi-cloud networking solutions that combine all the speed and agility of the software experience with VMware NSX, together with platform benefits such as, Intel ISAs, DPDK, QAT.

Accelerate and transform computing convergence at the edge using software-defined networking (SDN) hardware and infrastructure solutions from Supermicro and Intel. Universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) is an emerging category of network functions virtualization (NVF)-based edge computing and service provisioning systems. This new generation of systems provides network platform suppliers, systems integrators and software vendors the ability to quickly deliver managed services using software-driven and virtual network functions (VNFs). Intel® Select Solutions are verified hardware and software stacks that are optimized for specific software workloads and are designed to be easy to deploy. Join us on this webinar to learn how Supermicro’s verified Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE are enabling customers in their deployments.

Ensuring the success of a website is a critical task for employees throughout an organization. With over 200 million active websites online today, even the slightest issue with speed, reliability or uptime can have a negative impact on sales, viewership, customer engagement, and brand loyalty. Many organizations now utilize a content delivery network (CDN) to help maximize site performance and reliability. However, as the web landscape continues to quickly evolve, these organizations will need to constantly assess site metrics to remain competitive and keep site visitors satisfied and engaged.

Attendees of this webinar will learn the following:
•Key metrics and what to look for when evaluating CDN providers
•Internet trends: mobile vs. desktop and the proliferation of video
•Common use cases around improving page load performance, scaling globally while keeping costs low, and API protection and acceleration

The Intel® Network Builders webinar program is a recurring webcast series in which ecosystem members and Intel technology experts delve into the technologies, topics, and issues facing the networking industry. Presenters delve into the network transformation taking place through the adoption of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) across telecommunication and enterprise organizations.

Intel Network Builders also offers a comprehensive NFV and SDN training program through the Intel Network Builders University, which offers a broad collection of online content for technical professionals in the network industry. Learn more at http://networkbuilders.intel.com/university.